David Mellor

3 weeks ago | bianet.org | David Mellor

Pikachu has been deported, or is under house arrest. Since video images are not shown on mainstream media, we are left in limbo. It is hoped other cartoon or Marvel characters will come to the rescue. Most wishing for Spiderman, Ironman or Superman; someone who could be quite useful for the demonstrators at the moment. At present it would appear that the government have only Daffy Duck or Mister Magoo leading their charge, it would be no match.

1 month ago | bianet.org | David Mellor

It came as a surprise; you could see that etched on the face of the İstanbul mayor’s wife. She held it together well during the whole of the day, but late in the evening one could only imagine. In reality no one should have been surprised. The charges had been growing against him, and on the day, they were so vast and far-ranging that if true he would never see the light of day again. Street protests were banned, but a large CHP rally took place in the evening.

1 month ago | bianet.org | David Mellor

Little over a year ago the majority of countries were reeling from the Russian atrocities committed in places like Bucha and Mariupol in Ukraine. Wind forward to today and we now have a US president who actually aligns himself with Putin and humiliates the leader of the nation that was invaded. You couldn’t make it up.

2 months ago | thewhiskeywash.com | David Mellor

One of Scotland’s rarest whiskies sits at the center of a peculiar market puzzle. The Springbank 1919 50-year-old, distilled during Campbeltown’s golden age, exists in two forms – with dramatically different price tags. The original 1970 bottling, in Springbank’s classic pear-shaped bottle, is available for £32,500 at Hedonism Wines in London. Its twin, containing identical whisky but rebottled in the 1980s with a wooden presentation box, commands £120,000 at auction.

2 months ago | bianet.org | David Mellor

There is sense that disasters are befalling the country on an almost weekly basis, and nothing is happening to stop them. It is as if this is the new identity of the people, removing  any positive characteristic  from their personality. The magnitude of the disaster left one with a terrible sense of grief, and then anger. "How could this happen?" And then "someone must pay for this." I had had such feelings before in the UK in 2017.